Yes Hickock was that good and I know he killed a couple of Missouri Bushwackers in a straightup shootout after the war. Deadly fellow that Mid-Westerner. I do think his kill count during the ACW eaxggerated though, he did do that every now and then...I wouldn't tell him that to his face though...lol... good as he may have been, I doubt that he was in the class of the Berdan Sharpshooters... course they had telescopic sights.

Though most rebs were probably better than us with guns, Hiram Berdan assembled a team that made it right dangerous for graybacks to stir around in daylight during the Yorktown Siege. The balance was only restored when John Bell Hood's Texas brigade came from Johnston's army. Hood's boys had a sizeable number of British made Enfield rifles and knew how to use them. Though the stories of skill on both sides are probably also exaggerated Berdan's Sharpshooters and Hood's men taught the prudent to keep their head down. Frank, Ohioans are Buckeyes, Indianans are Hossiers and Kentuckians are Briars, what's the nickname for you guys in Illinois?

Chase.